Exhibitors
The Connecting for Change exhibition hall is a three-day interactive experience. Over the course of the conference exhibitors will connect with over 2,500 attendees and community members, who are dedicated to creating deep and positive change in their communities.
For more information on exhibiting at the 2012 Connecting for Change Conference please contact:
Brooke Syverston
phone: 508.748.0816
facsimile: 508.748.1976
brooke@marioninstitute.org
The Connecting for Change Conference is a collaboration between the Marion Institute and a wide array of businesses large and small, grassroots organizations, and schools. We are very happy to be sharing an ecosystem with these amazing Exhibitors.
2011 Exhibitors
Alive with Water
Enjoy a greener lifestyle from drinking to cleaning, gardening to pet care, and from cooking to beauty care. Learn how super hydration can improve mental clarity, well being and ideal weight. Quench free radicals with antioxidant, micro-clustered, alkaline water. Change your water, change your life!
Belfast Cohousing & Ecovillage
Belfast Cohousing & Ecovillage is a self-developing community of 36 households creating an old-fashioned neighborhood of tightly clustered houses, on five of their 30 acres surrounded by rolling farmland two miles from downtown Belfast.
Blisscapes
Blisscapes Landscape Design and Nursery – Commercial and Residential. Established in 1984, specializing in native and bird attracting plants. Sensible, eco-friendly designs that bring nature to you. Walk ways, terraces, with proper balance and flow, outdoor living spaces captivating and inviting.
City of New Bedford
http://www.ci.new-bedford.ma.us
Learn more about the city’s many art, history and cultural destinations. Free information will be available to help you plan your visi to this historic and fun city!
Down to Earth Natural Foods for People and Pets
A 33 year family owned and operated business that is dedicated to helping families by supplying quality natural and organic food products. Our passion for education and support for local non-profit organizations is essential for further growth of our community.
EarthFrendz
At Earthfrendz,we believe in fair trade practices. We work with underprivileged artisans and established manufacturers who practice fair trade throughout India. Our mission is give these people a global platform to display their talent by bringing to you sustainable, stylish, durable, highest quality eco-friendly products that you can feel good about incorporating into your daily life.
Fortress Green Building Supply
http://fortressgreenbuildingsupply.com
“High Efficiency” Green Building Materials & Supplies. Our ICF & SIP Buildings are 60% to 80% more efficient than conventional buildings, and all our supplies will actually pay for themselves in short time with energy saving dividends. We have contractor, builder, non-profit & homeowner green programs. We also have green consulting, green-coach / green guide mentor, & green home evaluation & optimum option programs, that can advance your home or building several steps beyond the minimum, mass-save type basics programs. We are currently working with U-Mass Dartmouth on several Green Educational Programs & Projects, as well as the 2005 Solar Decathlon Project, and several Green Habitat for Humanities, including the 1st LEEDs HFH in the state, and the upcoming Buzz Bay 1st Green HFH Home, in Marion.
Handmade Soaps
http://www.handmadesoap4me.com
We make a great all vegetable, cold process handmade soap, herbal salves and different balms and lotions for the skin. Why not start treating your skin to a more natural moisturizing cleansing!
KidWind
KidWind is a team of teachers, engineers, and scientists committed to energy education for the next generation. Over the past 5 years the KidWind Project has trained more than 4500 teachers in 37 states about integrating wind energy science and technology into classrooms.
Living Routes
Living Routes' mission is to create opportunities to live and learn within human-scale communities (ecovillages) that are consciously striving to live well and lightly. By offering positive visions and “stories” for humanity and the planet, ecovillages offer ideal “campuses” for students to explore possible futures, both in the world and it their own lives.
Marlboro College
http://www.gradschool.marlboro.edu
The Marlboro College MBA in Managing for Sustainability integrates rigorous business education with a systems-based understanding of social justice, ecological responsibility and holistic economics. Classes met one weekend per month in Brattleboro, Vt, supported by an online component.
Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources
The Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources' (MDAR) mission is to ensure the long-term viability of local agriculture in Massachusetts. Through its strong partnerships with municipal and federal entities, farmers and farming associations, MDAR's services provide support for continued successful cultivation of a thriving and diversified agricultural industry, economically ad environmentally sound food safety and animal health measures, and fulfilling agriculture's role in energy conservation and production.
Migrant Winds
I design and print original limited edition silkscreen prints with themes about the human spirit and some with a vision of a sustainable future.
New England Grassroots Environment Fund
NEGEF is both a Funders/Activists’ Collaborative and a Community Network Builder. Our mission is: to energize and nurture long-term civic engagement in local initiatives that create and maintain healthy, just, safe and environmentally sustainable communities.
Since its inception 14 years ago, NEGEF has built up a core grantmaking program that has funded over 1,000 different community groups located in over 40% of New England’s cities and towns putting over $2.5 million directly into these communities. These grants are typically between $500 and $2,500 for its regionwide small grants program, with a range of $500 to $10,000 for its urban grants program: the Boston Grants Initiative. NEGEF invests in constituencies from rural, suburban and urban areas, working on a wide range of projects.
Next Step Living
http://www.nextsteplivinginc.com
Next Step Living is a residential energy efficiency company, providing home energy diagnostics and improvements to the greater New England area. We are a socially-conscious, environmentally focused, results-driven organization dedicated to helping our customers lower their energy bills, increase the comfort of their homes, and reduce their carbon footprint.
Phoenix Composting Toilets and Ben’s Bins
http://www.compostingtoilet.com
Phoenix Composting Toilets provide approved, safe, and effective aerobic stabilization of human waste for residences, public facilities, parks, schools, remote sites, and environmentally sensitive areas. Advanced Composting Systems, manufacturer of the Phoenix, is a dedicated green business that practices thoughtful energy and resource conservation strategies, and is soon to be a 100 percent off-the-grid manufacturing plant. Ben's Bins manufactures worm tea collecting worm bins in all sizes, and encourages the use of vermiculture and worm castings to recycle food and plant wastes, build microbial rich soils, and to offset the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. We encourage the use of worm bins in the classroom as a teaching tool for lifecycle ecology, waste-stream ecology, responsible stewardship, farming and gardening, and numerous other topics. “We Have Worms
Pixels and Pulp
Pixels & Pulp was created with these simple philosophies in mind:
{a} create beautiful and sophisticated DESIGNS, no matter what type or size of the project, {b} LISTEN closely to what the client is looking for and provide them with the highest quality and most intelligently created product possible, and {c} do all of this while striving to maintain a low carbon footprint by utilizing methods that help preserve our ENVIRONMENT.
SIT Study Abroad
http://www.sit.edu/studyabroad/
SIT Study Abroad programs examine critical global issues in a specific cultural and geographical context. Studying with host country faculty and living with families, students gain a deep appreciation for local cultures, develop language skills, and become immersed in diverse topics ranging from the politics of identity to post-conflict transformation, from global health to environmental policy.
SoBerryClean
Our mission is to make the world a cleaner place by offering our clients an eco-friendly way to get their laundry done. Soapberries are a chemical free, a paraben free, and a fragrance free way to clean laundry. If this piques your curiosity, read on, to learn more about what these great little berries can do for you and our earth--while also saving you money.
Sole Reflextion
Linda Cornell is a Board Certified Reflexologist and has a private practice located in South Dartmouth, MA. Reflexology is an ancient technique of applying pressure to the reflex points on the feet and hands. It is the gentle stimulation of these points that helps clear the body’s energy flow so that the whole system can function effectively resulting in a feeling of wellbeing through the restoration of vitality and balance. Reflexology encourages the body to naturally heal itself.
Southeastern Massachusetts Agricultural Partnership (SEMAP)
SEMAP is dedicated to preserving and expanding access to local food and sustainable farming in Southeastern Massachusetts through research and education.
Students for Sustainability
Cape Cod Community College’s Students for Sustainability advocates an increased awareness towards the value of living a more sustainable lifestyle. The students learn about their choices in the diverse classes and activities hosted at the college. Opportunities in resource management from coastal zone issues to renewable energy technologies are popular.
Syracuse Cultural Workers
http://www.syracuseculturalworkers.com
Syracuse Cultural Workers is a peace and justice publisher founded in 1982 with the purpose of connecting art with activisim. We create and distribute products (posters, t-shirts, postcards, buttons and stickers) that inspire and nurture activism while raising awareness on current political and spiritual issues
Taktse International School Kada imports
Kada Imports brings you closer to the Himalayas with selected unique goods that not only support local economies, here and abroad, but also contribute to a green & healthy lifestyle. All the products are made (and used in everyday life) by Himalayan villagers, who are paid fairly and treated well.
The Jetty
http://www.etsy.com/shop/TheJetty
Environmentally friendly and nature themed jewelry, t-shirts, paintings, booklets.
The Willow Grove (tie dye)
UMass Dartmouth
The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth distinguishes itself as a vibrant public university actively engaged in personalized teaching and innovative research and acting as an intellectual catalyst for regional economic, social and cultural development.
Veruka Doll Land
http://verukadollsland.etsy.com
Hand-crafted folk art dolls made from recycled and reclaimed materials, stuffed with new soft silky bamboo fiber. Each doll is hand sewn, individual, and unique work of textile art.
Yestemorrow Design/Build School
Yestermorrow Design / Build School in Waitsfield, Vermont offers over 150 hands-on courses per year in design, construction, woodworking, and architectural craft including a variety of courses concentrating in sustainable design and green building. Our 1-day to 3-week hands-on courses are taught by top architects, builders, and craftspeople from across the country. Certificate programs in Woodworking, sustainable building and design, and natural building are also available along with Semester programs for undergraduates and graduate level students for college credit.
Your Health Potential
http://www.yourhealthpotential.com
At Your Health Potential, puttingyour health first brings you to life! That's why we focus on: freedom from sugar sensitivity, food addictions, long term weight loss, nutrient testing, nutrition by condition, whole and raw food, organic transitions, food sensitivity testing analysis and health improvement.










































